The combined company would have about $2 billion in yearly revenue and a pipeline including biosimilar versions of the Neupogen and Neulasta cancer-care treatments and of the Copaxone multiple-sclerosis drug, according to the companies.

Teva lost a patent-infringement case in February to protect its best-selling, branded multiple-sclerosis drug Copaxone from competition by drug manufacturers who will make lower-cost, chemically-equivalent generic versions to sell.

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Origin and Etymology of sclerosis

Middle English sclirosis tumor, from Medieval Latin, from Greek sklērōsis hardening, from sklēroun to harden, from sklēros

Medical Dictionary

sclerosis

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Definition of sclerosis

1: a pathological condition in which a tissue has become hard and which is produced by overgrowth of fibrous tissue and other changes (as in arteriosclerosis) or by increase in interstitial tissue and other changes (as in multiple sclerosis) —called alsohardening